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(Last Modified On 7/25/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/25/2013)
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Genus
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Barleria L.
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Sp. PI. 636. 1753
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TYPE: B. prionitis L.
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Description
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Shrubs or herbs, erect, sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite, petiolate to nearly sessile, the cystoliths generally prominent and dense on both the surfaces, the margins entire. Inflorescence axillary or dense terminal bracted spikes. Flowers with the calyx deeply 4-lobed, the lobes unequal; corolla 5-merous, the broad, spreading lobes mostly subequal, bilabiate in Panama; stamens 4, didynamous, adnate to the base of the corolla tube, generally all stamens perfect, but American species with only 2 perfect stamens and 2 staminodes. Capsules ovate to oblong, flattened, with 2 seeds per locule; seeds flattened, ovate to suborbicular.
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Habit
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Shrubs or herbs
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Note
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Over 100 species of this genus have been described, and nearly all of them occur in the Old World tropics.
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